Suzy Bogguss

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- It may be her ninth album -- 10th, if you count her greatest-hits release -- but country singer Suzy Bogguss' newest CD is a first for her on two counts. It's her first self-titled album.

And it's her first album on the Platinum label -- although this new home for her work feels pretty familiar, she says.

"The fellow who is the head of Platinum Records was the head of Capital when I was there, you know, when I first started out," she tells CNN Showbiz Today's Jim Moret. "So it's kind of neat. We've continued a relationship with a small little pause in the middle."

Now 42, the Aledo, Illinois, native first sang in the Aledo Presbyterian Church's "angel choir" at age 5. She later toured with such acts as Asleep at the Wheel, got a regular gig at a Nashville rib joint and performed, also as a regular, at Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

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That led to a contract with Capitol Nashville. Her third and fourth major-label releases, 1991's "Aces" and 1992's "Voices in the Wind," went gold and fielded such artists as Vince Gill and Beth Nielsen Chapman on backup vocals.

Like her career, Bogguss says her latest release is "very eclectic -- it's got a really broad bunch of songs on it."

But it also has a personal connection for the singer. Produced with husband Doug Crider, with whom Bogguss says she writes many of her songs, her self-titled new release was recorded mostly at home.

"I thought I wasn't going to like working in the house," she says, "because I thought it would be hard to separate myself. And I absolutely loved it. You know, I'd put Ben (her son, born in 1995) to bed, we'd go back upstairs.

"If I was having a hard time, I could go downstairs, get a cup of tea and sit down for a minute and then go back up and try again. Or, you know, I could have just been cooking dinner and all of a sudden I'm like, 'I feel like singing -- let's do something,' you know?"